Mail - Accepts Mail as soon as I get it (previously, I had to wait 8 or 12 hours).

iPhoto - No longer hangs when my iPhone is connected to my Mac and loads the photos in the background.

Safari - Around 1million X quicker than before. I am on 2 mb/s connection and Mac Rumors used to take a full 5 seconds to load and then the images would take another 7 seconds. That was without P2P activity.

I've noticed a faster Safari above all, due to the updated WebKit framwork. Everything else also seems to be a little quicker than before. I have not had WiFi problems. And charging does seem to be a bit faster.

I've noticed a faster Safari above all, due to the updated WebKit framwork. Everything else also seems to be a little quicker than before. I have not had WiFi problems. And charging does seem to be a bit faster.

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I had attributed the faster Safari reports to the resetting of the cache that happens after this update.

Perhaps there is also a gain due to the TCP improvements mentioned in the release notes, although I really have no idea what those could be.

I don't think any significant improvement was made to WebKit that is improving the performance. (To the extent that it is being reported.)

I had attributed the faster Safari reports to the resetting of the cache that happens after this update.

Perhaps there is also a gain due to the TCP improvements mentioned in the release notes, although I really have no idea what those could be.

I don't think any significant improvement was made to WebKit that is improving the performance. (To the extent that it is being reported.)

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Something about Safari has changed dramatically; I have never had it work this quick before. Prior to the update I frequently reset safari, (cleaned cache), and it wasn't bang on. I began using Firefox a lot more. I hope it stays this way!

Lets see. The wallpaper changer is still crap (works great in Tiger though). Turning off the transclucent menubar and the 3D dock brings the performance back to Tiger's level, but seriously, an 8600M GT 128 mb should be able to handle it.

I had to reboot the laptop 3-4 times for performance to be back to the level of 10.5.5

So far, I haven't seen any improvement over 10.5.5. 10.5.6 didn't offer anything new to me. I don't use mail, I don't use safari, I don't use iCal.

If Apple could fix the performance of the 8600M GT performance, I would be a happy camper. There have been a ton of times that I've considered dropping back to Tiger, but stacks has me addicted, as well as Time Machine.

am I the only one who noticed quicktime is choppy now ? Specially when running a video, the icon lags when bouncing in the dock and the beginning of a video lags too... Sometimes during playback, I noticed some frameskip... I still have Quicktime 7.4.app and I dont see any issue with it...

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